Conference on International Macro-Finance

This website contains papers and web links to papers that were presented at the conference. The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors only, and the presence of them, or of links to them, on the IMF website does not imply that the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management endorses or shares the views expressed in the papers.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Economy and Finance Research Programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council held a conference on international macro-finance at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 24-25, 2008. The conference provided a forum to present recent theoretical and empirical research narrowing the gap between "open-economy macro" and "finance" approaches to international financial issues.

Note on the Papers: Papers presented at the conference are under consideration for publication in a special issue of the Journal of International Economics (JIE). The papers are presented below as prepared for the conference.